(n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(2) Granny flats, designed as standardized units using panels, offer privacy yet proximity to family members.
(3) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
(5) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
(6) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
(7) There’s no doubt that the grannies living in houses worth £2m are beneficiaries of the property boom, as their children and grandchildren will be.
(8) My granny, who was working incredibly hard in a fish factory, was not going to take the day off.
(9) In private all three parties are negotiating to find a consensus over the issue – and the government is aware of mounting anger among campaigners already smarting from the "granny tax" in March's budget.
(10) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(11) As Miliband sought to defend the so-called mansion tax as a principled way of raising extra funding for the NHS, Klass said the levy would hit “little grannies” living in modest homes in London rather than the super-rich Miliband claimed to be targeting.
(12) Bronwyn Wolfe, London Makes 2 glasses 6 carrots 3 apples, such as granny smith 1 red pepper A thumbnail-sized knob of ginger 1 Top and tail the carrots; there's no need to peel them.
(13) My mum, her cousin, my granny – they’ve gone for 30 or 40 years and never told anyone,” Anna says.
(14) They think it’s just looking after granny.” Apprentices at aVida spend six blocks of 10 weeks in different parts of the organisation, which can include working with schedulers to put rosters together, going out with team leaders to see clients and shadowing managers.
(15) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
(16) The Gastronomy of Italy by Anna del Conte (Pavilion) Crispy apple dumplings with walnut butter and anise cream Braeburn and granny smith apples bring flavour and texture.
(17) My sister and I ended up watching the royal wedding at my granny’s house.
(18) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
(19) Rather a lot of 'grannies' reside there; but contrary to popular belief I do not spend all day, every day making and repairing dentures!
(20) They have seen a summer campaign demonise him as an amalgam of Stalin, Hitler and Big Brother, bent on sending America's frail grannies to their deaths in the name of a new socialism.
Nanny
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
(3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
(4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
(5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
(6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
(7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
(9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
(10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
(11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
(15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
(17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
(18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
(19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
(20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.